Goodbye Before

Flowers of farewell are blooming In the wind As we say how are you doing Goodbye came before You are the sea and the deepest Blue I come to be Let me join in this reverie In and out we go Like waves upon the sand We breathe and exchange with the land The bitter sweetest of them all Goodbye but praise it after all Sun shrink behind the last hill So you can find A place to stay to release the day And then you'll remind Me of the parted day The love I felt along the way I thought there was something else to find It passed me from behind The shape and contours of my life The hesitations and the strife The clear and quiet scenic days Were enough and make me in these ways